AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 3 (March)

Medicine (March 2004)

March 2004 page 10 Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Medicine, 94620 (Q&A) Question A physician performs a 6-minute walk on a patient to assess oximetry, heart rate, dyspnea, and distance reached in 6 minutes. The physician analyzes the data and interprets the test results. If the physician does not perform a spirometry as a baseline for the procedure, is it still appropriate to report code 94620? AMA Comment AMA Comment: From a CPT coding perspective, code 94620, Pulmonary stress testing; simple (eg, prolonged exercise test for bronchospasm with pre- and post-spirometry), may be reported to describe the procedure. Code...

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